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Baptized September 26, 1641
Died March 25, 1712 • London • England
Notable Works “The Anatomy of Plants” • “The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun”
Subjects Of Study plant

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Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Fairchild, David
David Fairchild
American botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Kaibara Ekken
Japanese philosopher
José Mutis
Spanish botanist

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